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rsynnott on July 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android development has its own Swift

Mentioned in the article; many JVM languages have substantial performance issues under Dalvik. Scala certainly does; not sure about Kotlin.

eeperson on July 22, 2014 | [–]

Is this actually true for Scala? I was under the impression that statically typed languages run basically the same as Java on Android. Granted it has some other issues (such as running in to limits on the number of classes).

frowaway001 on July 22, 2014 | [–]

> Scala certainly does; not sure about Kotlin.

How did you measure that?

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